An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

Picnic on the seashore in the footsteps of ancient kings, protected by giant mythical cat beasts.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.